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katholikos

katholikos is the alternative form of catholicos.

Meaning of catholicos

Noun

catholicos (plural catholicoses or catholicoi)

  1. A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
    • Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 252

Forms of katholikos

pluralkatholikoses
pluralkatholikoi

Questions about katholikos

What is katholikos the alternative form of?
Katholikos is the alternative form of catholicos.

Words near katholikos in the dictionary

  1. kathodophone
  2. kathodophones
  3. kathoey
  4. kathoeys
  5. katholikoi
  6. katholikos
  7. katholikoses
  8. Kathopanishad
  9. Kathryn
  10. Kathrynne
  11. Kathu

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